Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad the well had been Christianized , as Michael Quirke himself could scarcely go on his knees and pray to the rascally old gods he so admired . |
| 2 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 3 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 4 | I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known . |
| 5 | Mark laughed and we compared notes on the most garish sights we 'd seen . |
| 6 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 7 | In the most recent mills it was made of steel ; but more commonly it was a piece of springy willow wood collected from a convenient pollard . |
| 8 | She was one of the most curious assassins I had ever met . |
| 9 | It was one of the most curious things I had ever seen . |
| 10 | One of the most encouraging things she has found about being in Riyadh is that the Lord has been very close to her and gives her constant encouragement , when things are hard . |
| 11 | But it turned out to be one of the most marvellous things we ever did . |
| 12 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 13 | One of the most useful skills you can learn , and one that will be of benefit throughout your life , is how to study . |
| 14 | The following is a list of the most useful herbs I have found , along with their properties and uses . |
| 15 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 16 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 17 | The most animated creatures he met , he wrote , were the pigeons . |
| 18 | Herbs are more than just a culinary delight — they are among the most colourful plants you can choose for the garden . |
| 19 | A. The Flag or Festive Cichlid , Mesonauta festivus , is one of the most peaceful Cichlids I can think of . |
| 20 | For once , the UK is in the good books of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) for our support of the European Remote Sensing ( ERS ) programme , which will use the most complex satellites it has ever attempted to build . |
| 21 | Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant . |
| 22 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 23 | The company should know what are the future consequences of its existing investments and commitments , and ought to be able to describe , at least in broad terms , some of the most probable scenarios it is likely to face during the next few years . |
| 24 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 25 | He said that money was no object — those were his actual words — and he wanted the most expensive teeth I could provide . |
| 26 | I think it 's great shame that were not able to come more often now but I do n't think that the replacement scheme is really a replacement cos it relies on you getting the most expensive seats I would rather see lots of things cheaply rather than just one or two things more expensively it also does n't include studio theatre many of the productions I think are excellent and there 's no advantage there . |
| 27 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 28 | I think that this was one of the most powerful points he made . |
| 29 | After we witness the ‘ World Premiere ’ of a new charidy single for ‘ Victims Of War ’ , which is — good intentions aside — probably one of the most hideous experiences we 've had in our lives , a motley crew of indie stars shambles on to the platform . |
| 30 | Now the sky above Dividal was filled with the most glorious Lights I had ever seen , a shimmering waterfall of green light . |